Almost all Dominicans are descendants of African slaves brought in by colonial planters in the 18th century.

Almost 70 years after Copernicus's death and building on his theories, astronomer Johannes Kepler from Stuttgart was a leader in the 17th century scientific revolution.

Almost as soon as Jerusalem had been captured, and continuing throughout the 12th century, many pilgrims arrived and left accounts of the new kingdom ; among them are the English Saewulf, the Russian Abbot Daniel, the Frank Fretellus, the Byzantine Johannes Phocas, and the Germans John of Würzburg and Theoderich.

Almost the whole brunt of official corruption is borne by the Muslim masses .” For almost a century until the census, a small Hindu elite had ruled over a vast and impoverished Muslim peasantry.

Almost a century later later, this decision would see Sergius ’ name removed from the Diptychs by Patriarch Sergius II of Constantinople.

Almost half the children born in Britain throughout the 19th century died before the age of 5, and in the crowded living conditions of early 19th century Lyme Regis, infant deaths from diseases like small pox and measles were particularly common.

Almost every keyboard until the 15th century had naturals to each octave.

Almost sixty of these had erupted in the twentieth century by the early 1990s.

Almost all them closed in the late 19th or 20th century.

Almost from the invention of the telescope in the 17th century the advantages of mounting two of them side by side for binocular vision seems to have been explored.

Almost a century later Matthew Flinders surveyed the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1802 and 1803.

Almost all of the prizes have been created in the twentieth century, and only two prizes were awarded before 1780.

Almost surely it is of later origin, and scholars agree in assigning it to the middle of the 4th century.

Almost immediately, the project of a legislative union between the British and Irish parliaments, which had been from time to time discussed since the beginning of the 18th century, was taken up in earnest by Pitt's government.

Almost the whole valley was clearfelled and converted to pasture or market gardens before the urbanisation of the 20th century.

Almost a century later in 1649, in the first known attempt to argue for jury nullification, a jury likewise acquitted John Lilburne for his part in inciting a rebellion against the Cromwell regime.

Almost a century later, in 1984, there was a brief constitutional crisis.

Almost a century later ( 609 – 610 ) the 3rd Council of Dvin was convened during the reign of Catholicos Abraham I of Aghbatank and Prince Smbat Bagratuni, with clergymen and laymen participating.

Almost all major personages of the French aristocracy and literature of the time frequented it, and its reputation was at its height in the second quarter of the century.

Almost a century later it became a city on July 10, 1959.

Almost a century later, George Russell, a 53-year-old horticulturalist from UK York started to breed the famous Russell hybrids ( Lupinus X russellii hort ).

" Almost a century beforehand, César Franck had ecstatically said of the rather modest Cavaillé-Coll instrument at l ' Eglise St .- Jean-St .- François in Paris with words that summed up everything the builder was trying to do: " Mon nouvel orgue?

Almost no secular work remains above ground, although the Anglian Tower in York has been controversially dated to the seventh century.

Almost all scholars agree that the book of Joshua holds little historical value for early Israel and most likely reflects a much later period.

Almost forty years later, on 3 October 1935, after the League of Nations's weak response to the Abyssinia Crisis, the Italians launched a new military campaign endorsed by Benito Mussolini, the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

Almost immediately after the order of Kotaka was placed, Fernando Villaamil, second officer of the Ministry of the Navy of Spain where he was put in charge of developing the concept of a new ship designed to combat torpedo boats, placed an order for a large torpedo gunboat in November 1885, with the British builder James and George Thompson, of Clydebank, not far from where the Yarrow shipyards would move from London 20 years later.

Almost 60 years later, the thief admitted that the cup had been melted down to make counterfeit half-crown coins.

Almost three months later, in the election of September 18, 1867, the Anti-Confederation Party, won 18 out of 19 federal seats, and 36 out of 38 seats in the provincial legislature.

Almost one hundred years later, Prime Minister Herbert Asquith made the same point in his memoirs:

Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.

Almost a year later, on 11 April 1896, the play received its Australian premiere at the Criterion Theatre in Sydney, with eminent local stage actress Jenny Watt-Tanner in the role of Lady Bracknell.

Almost three centuries later, William Gilbert of Colchester replicated Petrus Peregrinus ' work and was the first to state explicitly that Earth is a magnet.

Almost fifty years later, Lawrence v. Texas struck down Texas sodomy laws.

Almost three centuries later much of the area was hit hard in the Great Hunger, especially the west.

Almost exactly three years later, on March 13, railroad service was inaugurated on the Tsugaru Kaikyo Line.

Almost 11 years later, it ended on October 16, 2006, after a reported attendance of 17, 681, which is 326 under the capacity at Pepsi Center, before a game against the Chicago Blackhawks.

" Almost a quarter-century later, Ebert wrote a second review, in which he called Woman Under the Influence " perhaps the greatest of Cassavetes ' films.

Almost all modern x86 operating systems ( Unix, Linux, OS / 2, Windows 95 and later, etc.

Almost ten years later when the post office was built, the community changed its name from Bledsoe's Lick to Castalian Springs.

Almost a year later, it was reissued on CD-ROM as an enhanced " talkie " edition with full voice acting and digitized sound effects.

Almost all digital cameras, and most later film cameras, measure distance using electroacoustic or electronic means and focus automatically ( autofocus ); however, it is not customary to speak of this functionality as a rangefinder.

Almost two hours of resistance later, England took a 106-run win late in day.

Almost two years later, Marc Antony added to the notoriety of the Rostra by publicly displaying the severed head and right hand of his enemy Cicero there.

Almost eighty years later, in the wake of the Second World War, Emperor Hirohito paid homage to the Oath and reaffirmed it as the basis of " national polity " in his famous Ningen-sengen rescript.

Almost 1 year later on January 18, 2009, it hosted the NFC Championship Game as the Arizona Cardinals defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 32-25 for the franchise's first ever Super Bowl berth.